“WHY IS THIS an interesting question?” Éva Nagypál, then a junior economist presenting research at her first academic conference, had barely finished her opening sentence. She still remembers the ...

When the economics department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology issues a statement, it is often to celebrate a Nobel Prize. In the past decade, six of its professors have won the award—as ...

The MA in Economics is a 30-credit program that provides depth of knowledge and analytical skills in the field of economics along with a wide range of elective choices. Each candidate shapes an ...